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Already the date has changed, the celebration of 11 years (1606), the ugliness of 20 December (about 2: 00 am) -

Without making any noise, the two Misty Hidden Talent Zones and the Ten Zones rush through as the wind cleaves through the dark night.

Without raising a single voice together, I was moving that leg silently, but as for the talent, I kept sorting out my thoughts in my heart.

- The contradiction I felt… if the answer it leads to is correct, Sasuke and his men are highly feared to have been trapped!

And now, once, he turns his mind around about the "contradictions" he feels.

Is that really the right thing to do, just to be sure once and for all now?

What is the contradiction...

- The players I saw on that stage... i.e. the sneakers should have been 'gender and age varied'...

But...

- In what Hiranuchi Sawasawa said, 'All the winddemon men I remember in my arms, they are all of the same good years'...

Yes... this was the identity of the "contradiction" that Talent felt.

- What this means... there's only one thing about it

This means that the "stage players" that the talented people saw and the "people who put themselves on one seat" that Hiranuchi Tsuzawa talked about are completely different people.

That shows…

- Takasaka Hiranuchi is taking two troops!

That's what I meant.

If you haven't even noticed Hiranuchi Tsuzawa, it's obvious that even if you attack him at night according to the internal circumstances he knows, it's like eating up at the bait placed in front of a trap, so to speak.

In the first place, it is unlikely that anyone who learns of the secret plot of the assassination of Hidekang Noboru, the son of Jiayang Tokugawa, will escape so easily. However, it does not seem to me that there has been a falsehood in what Hiranuchi Sawasawa said. When that happens, Hazawa Hiranai and the other three must have been designed to escape from the beginning.

In other words, it was a "rat" that was unleashed in order to scare out those who interrupted Hiranuchi Takasaka's plan.

Assuming that whoever stood in its way was not in Nagahama alone, at that point, Hiranuchi Tsuzawa and Hiranuchi Tsuji, as well as Akane's three, would have been erased.

However, it was the face of Shinobu Maida, including Sasuke Monkey, who ate the "rat" very well.

- Ku... should I have noticed then!

My eyes were completely clouded by the heartbreaking monologue of Hiranuchi Hazawa, but such regrets would not stand later. Now that I should think about "what's to come," Talent put a lot of effort into his belly.

- But why on earth did Hiranuchi Takasaka bother to divide the troops into two parts? And why did you attract Sasuke and others by turning one of its troops, the Wind Demon...

And that brings me to my head. And that was when I tried to get my thoughts around it.

"... Caizo. Give me that..."

Suddenly, Tenzo, who was behind the talent collection, called out low. When I turned to the one who pointed to the voice, a small rope was placed at the edge of the road that I might overlook if I wasn't told.

"Is that a knot rope!?

Unexpectedly, Giorzo screamed that way, where he stopped his legs perfectly. And when he took the rope, he opened his eyes.

This is one of the means of transmission between fellow sneakers called "knot ropes". It was something that made various meanings by the way the rope was tied, and the Tenzo, who saw it, crushed it small.

"This knot... 'Don't go'... that's what I'm saying..."

Talent looks around. Already out of the city, surroundings without lights are covered in pitch-black darkness.

But in that darkness, isn't there someone lurking with this knot rope? So intuitive, the talent raised a low voice.

"On Maricieisowaka..."

These are the true words of Mori Jintian. Its Molly branch heaven is a symbol of Yangitis and is often considered an object of faith among the ninjas who embody a hidden form without reality. It was known within his companions that Talent was also one of the faithful of its Molly Chentian, and this truth was well spoken. In other words, it was like a kind of euphemism among our people, and it represented that Misty Hidden Talent Zone was nearby.

- Gasari...

As I echoed the words of talent, I wondered if there had been a noise from the nearby jaws, and a shadow of one man came up in the darkness.

"Izo!!?

Unexpectedly, Giorzo shouts so, fluttering and rushing toward its shadow as it approaches. And supported that shadow body.

Even from the light of the thin moon, if we get this close, we can distinguish whose face it belongs clearly.

And it was Sanhoi-san his brother, the brother of Sanhoi-san, as he called his name.

When I propped up his back, the look of talent became unwittingly rugged by the feeling of sogginess. Izo stared at the talent and raised his mouth angle, "Don't worry. Even if you want to die, it's a good body that can die," he strengthens. However, it was evident that it was so heavy that it was unforgivable to predict from the fatty sweat floating on its forehead.

"Anyway... you mustn't go further"

Itsuko, who had left behind, lost his neck and flew his consciousness.

"Talent, what do you do...?

"For one thing, Izo's allowance comes first. I'm turning back."

Though talented said so without hesitation, he regrettably stares in the direction of his purpose. Beyond that without light, it is hard to wonder what the eyes of your companions are. The matter didn't get any worse.

However, it was easy to imagine that Sasuke and the others had all noticed that they were going to escape the scene, so at least they would have escaped only the little body Sanho Izo, who was easily disputed in the dark night. And it was the words I entrusted to him that said, "You must not come here."

In other words, if we leave it to our emotions here to step in, we will waste Sasuke's readiness to die.

That was all I had to avoid.

Once he bears a light Izo of his body on his back, he now leads Tenzo back the way he came.

Tonight's cold is a puncturing pain if you have bare skin. But they never felt it, they just moved on early enough.

But it's on the verge of entering the whole city of Nagahama...

Suddenly Talent stopped on the way.

"Talent... what's up...?

Shizukuza, who was in front, also stops again and looks back at the talented one. Then Genzo slowly approached Tenzo and deposited Izo's body with him.

Tenzo knows full well that it won't be "replace me because it's heavy". Against him, still circling his eyes to his surprise, Talent said in such a low voice that he had decided to be prepared for something.

"Go ahead. I've left something behind."

That short word alone seems to have accurately crept away his intentions. Quietly nodding, Izo disappeared into the darkness early with his back.

In the darkness of winter, one person is only talented.

When he got into a quiet struggle and took a big, deep breath, he turned his piercing glance towards the dark end. And clear your ears to dry air.

"One... two... three... three..."

And when he breathed out loud again, he put his natural strength inside his belly.

As a matter of fact, at this time, Talent had noticed something.

It is the presence of a flavor of Hiranuchi Takasaka who has followed Itsan by hand. And he kept the Izo in Shizukuza, and he waited alone to deal with the chaser.

"On marishei sowaka... you flies... this fog hidden talent will knock you down"

So crushing, he loosened his nibble and waited quietly for his opponent to come from the dark end.

………

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Returning to the former inn, Shizukuzo immediately asleep Izo to lie down, immediately removing his sneak outfit and examining the knife wound put on his back. Fortunately, the wound is shallow, and it doesn't look poisoned. If we stop even the blood that flows, there will be no other provision in our lives.

Shizukuza, who had been handcuffed by Kosuke Funayama, a medical expert, quickly removed herbs to stop the bleeding from his luggage and herbal medicine to restore his lost strength, and treated him to the extent he could.

The time has already turned to (c) engraving (approximately 4: 00 a.m.), and in less than a moment the night will dawn.

If Sasuke and the others had become captives, it is clear that they would go to help in the course of this day. For this reason, I have to give my body a little rest now… So I said in my heart, while paying attention to Izo's condition, I brought it to the wall to cloud my relaxation and my consciousness.

Is that when I was about four and a half minutes old...

Suddenly Tenzo opened his eyes slightly and laid his hands on the knife he had placed on the floor.

"... who..."

That's a word directed at people's signs outside of the jaws. Let's say someone who should obviously be suspicious, such as a visitor at this time before dawn.

Then he was surprised by the murderous voice of the Tenzo, and in such a hurried manner that the outside man raised his voice.

"I apologize for such a time. It's in Akane.

Sasuke wants to be here, and because of my personal concern, I've come this far. Please forgive me. "

"Akane... the escaped stomach..."

During this operation, Hiranuchi Tsuzawa and Hiranuchi Tsuji are acting together with Sasuke and others, but Akane, who is not a sneak one, was instructed to lurk in a difficult place to find.

On the other hand, Sasuke said, "If you feel any danger to yourself, you should visit here." He had included the location of one of the rooms of the Inn with the talent and the ten.

Anxious to keep hiding by herself, she came to the inn knowing it was annoying.

"Please, hide it"

In response to Akane speaking from the outside with such a desperate voice, Tozo said in a short voice, "Get in..."

"Thank you. I'm happy."

It's easy to open. Ahead, I had an anxious and sleepless night alone, and there was the appearance of a perfectly shriveled face. Still, it doesn't change the goodness of the elegance that drifts, or the sweet fragrance that invites your heart. If you're a normal man, just having her in front of you is enough to fascinate you. But Shizukuza, who had worked out physically and mentally as a sneak, was not confused by them, and said to her in a pale tone.

"You should get some sleep... you should lay down there"

Akane, who lay honestly down a little away from Izo, who was lying flat and still unconscious, began to take a small nap with her back to Tenzo, how relieved she was.

Tenzo, who confirmed it, closed his eyes by leaning against the wall, keeping his vigilance nets stretched around him.

When the temporary silence dominates the room, there is a slight amount of rest there.

But...

There was only one thing nobody noticed...

It's...

Little sleep, and that consciousness is about a woman who's supposed to be in her dreams.

I have a nibbly, creepy grin on that face that I know no one will ever see, that its eyes are wide open...